"Agonist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with its militaristic trumpets, its abuse of the brass. One finds oneself choosing even among the acts of "Tristan und Isolde," finding the first far inferior to the poignant, magnificent third. Sometimes, one glimpses a little too long behind his work not the heroic agonist, but the man who loved to languish in mournful salons, attired in ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld |
